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nutnoun a person of odd or whimsical habitsa show devoted to those lovable nuts who collect the weirdest things just for fun character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, flake, fruitcake, head case, kook, nutcase, nutter(British slang), oddball, oddity, original, quiz, screwball, weirdo, zany bohemian, maverick, nonconformist, quixotecoot, geezercurio, rarityfreakfantast, fantastico odd duck, piece of work conformer, conformist, follower, sheep a person who lacks good sense or judgmentanyone who goes out in this weather is a nut berk(British), booby, charlie(also charley, British), cuckoo, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingbat, dipstick, doofus(slang), featherhead, fool, git(British), goose, half-wit, jackass, lunatic, mooncalf, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit(chiefly British), nitwit, nutcase, simp, simpleton, turkey, yo-yo daredevilmadman, madwomanairhead, birdbrain, blockhead, dodo, dolt, donkey, dope, dork(slang), dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, gander, goon, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, know-nothing, knucklehead, moron, numskull(or numbskull), pinhead, schlub(also shlub, slang), schlump(slang), schnook(slang), stockfeatherbrain, scatterbrainbutt, dupe, laughingstock, mockery, monkeychump, loser, schlemiel(also shlemiel)character, codger, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, kook, oddball, screwball, weirdo sage, thinkerbrain, genius a person with a strong and habitual liking for somethinga baseball nut who plans her vacation to coincide with spring training every year addict, aficionado(also afficionado), buff, bug, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fancier, fiend, fool, freak, habitué(also habitue), head, hound, junkie(also junky), lover, maniac, maven(also mavin), sucker groupieadmirer, amateur, collector, connoisseur, dilettanteauthority, expertadherent, convert, cultist, disciple, follower, hanger-on, votaryadvocate, apostle, backer, champion, evangelist, exponent, friend, patron, promoter, proponent, supporterpartisan(also partizan), zealotbooster, rooter, well-wisherfaddist nonfan nonadmirerbelittler, carper, critic, detractor a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mindthe man walking down the street talking to himself looked like a nut until we realized he was talking into his cell phone bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake, head case, loon, loony, lunatic, maniac, nutcase, nutter(British slang), psycho, psychopath, sickie, sicko, wacko(also whacko) madman, madwomanabnormal, deviantmanic-depressive, monomaniac, mythomaniac, neurotic, obsessive, obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, psychoneurotic, psychotic, schizo, schizoid, schizophrene, schizophrenic, sociopathcharacter, codger, crack, crackpot, crank, eccentric, fantastic, flake, kook, oddball, oddity, original, quiz, screwball, tyke(also tike, chiefly British), weirdo, zanycase, patient something that requires thought and skill for resolutionthe question of how to increase functionality without decreasing efficiency may prove to be a tough nut to crack case, challenge, knot, matter, problem, trouble issue, questioncorner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, spotcrux, Gordian knot, sticky wicket, toughie(also toughy)catch-22, dilemma, quandarycatch, glitch, hitch, pitfall, snagconundrum, enigma, mystery, puzzle, puzzlement, riddlebrainteaser, poser, stumper answer, solution magic bullet, silver bulletcure-all, panacea slangthe upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouthhe didn't appreciate his friend's jibe about watching his big nut when getting into the car bean, block(slang), dome, head, mazard(or mazzard, chiefly dialect), nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, pate, poll cranium, crown, scalp, skullocciput nuts pl.language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good senseresponding to your opponent's every argument with "Nuts!" is not exactly finely reasoned refutation applesauce(slang), balderdash, baloney(also boloney), beans, bilge, blah(also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull(slang), bunk, bunkum(or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop(British), crapola(slang), crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel(British), flapdoodle, folderol(also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers(slang), humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey(also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts(slang), nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacyabsurdness, craziness, madness, witlessnesshoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolerygas, hot air, rigmarole(also rigamarole)double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensiblenesscommon sense, horse sense, sensediscernment, judgment(or judgement), wisdom before the 12th century |